Email Author Marc Cooper

Awards

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published May 4, 2007

  "East Versus West"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

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2005 Stories by Marc Cooper

• Tookie’s Inhumanity

  published December 8, 2005

  This week Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will decide whether the convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips gang, Stanley “Tooki... More >>

• Calling The Hole

  published December 8, 2005

  Before the spring of 2003, watching poker on TV was a bit like watching flies fornicate. There was nothing to see. Not until... More >>

• All In With the Bad Boy of Poker

  published December 8, 2005

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• Blackjack’s Death Count

  published December 8, 2005

  BILOXI, MISS. — The future of blackjack has been revealed and it’s ugly. As legalized gambling continues to blossom, with a record ... More >>

• Attack of the Philistines

  published December 1, 2005

  Come back, Mike Kinsley. You can even cart back your wacky Wiki-torials and unsigned, format-breaking and often irrelevant rants. All is... More >>

• Clueless Times

  published November 10, 2005

  When you’re finished reading this issue of L.A. Weekly, you might think about preserving its news pages between glass and lockin... More >>

• Return of New Times

  published November 3, 2005

  The chain that owns this newspaper, Village Voice Media, is merging with New Times Media. The new company will become the largest chain... More >>

• Moons and Junes and Ferris Wheels

  published October 27, 2005

  From Marc Cooper's blog: First, a disclaimer. I worked for the L.A. Weekly in the... More >>

• Arnold’s Toughest Role

  published October 20, 2005

  Illustration by Mr. FishTo chart the rise and fall of Arnold Schwarzenegger, you need only focus on one set of numbers. He got carried... More >>

• Shame. Shame. Shame.

  published October 13, 2005

  An extraordinary, perhaps historic moment occurred on the floor of the House last Friday. And it went mostly unnoticed in the weekend... More >>

• The War Is the Question

  published September 29, 2005

  The largest anti-war demonstration since the invasion of Iraq came and went in Washington this past weekend, but the peace movement... More >>

• All Fired Up

  published September 22, 2005

  When FEMA failed to respond adequately to last month’s Gulf Coast disaster, outraged citizens demanded and quickly achieved th... More >>

• Walls of Indifference

  published September 15, 2005

  Now that the New Orleans floodwaters are receding and George W. Bush is making photo-op stops on the Gulf Coast a routine part of his... More >>

• The Sinking of the President

  published September 8, 2005

  I know George W. Bush doesn’t like to read very much. And now that he has announced that he will be heading up his own administration... More >>

• Summer Blues

  published September 1, 2005

  Perhaps it's a hallucinatory effect of just too much heat. But as this summer sizzles to a close, it certainly seems that the conflagration... More >>

• Camp Cindy

  published August 18, 2005

  With apologies to Don Rumsfeld, let’s say you have to go with the anti-war movement you’ve got — not the one you’d like to have. Ca... More >>

• Sour Grapes

  published August 11, 2005

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• Breaking Free

  published July 28, 2005

  Count me among those who fully support this past week’s break in Big Labor. It’s encouraging to see America’s biggest union, the Serv... More >>

• Mr. Bush and Mr. Roberts

  published July 21, 2005

  George W. Bush may, indeed, be a lousy president but he’s turning out to be one helluva poker player. When Dubya retires he might conside... More >>

• Bring Me the Head of Karl Rove

  published July 14, 2005

  Until this week Karl Rove has had both a political and legal defense strategy. The former has now definitively crashed. Only... More >>

• Bush in Africa:

  published July 7, 2005

  Through the smoke of the Independence Day barbecues and amid the hubbub of Sandra Day O’Connor’s resignation, the use of t... More >>

• California Reamin’

  published June 16, 2005

  As I watched the governor give the commencement address at Santa Monica College, I started to wonder if Arnold, and his political... More >>

• Meet Me in the L.A. Surf: Bring Your Rod

  published June 16, 2005

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• Spare Change for My Butler

  published June 9, 2005

  Forget trying to decode the Dow Jones or decipher the pronouncements of Pope Greenspan. Understanding the core state of our economy can... More >>

• Half-Drunk With Arnold

  published June 2, 2005

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